Outcomes of Open, Laparoscopic, and Robotic Abdominoperineal Resections in Patients With Rectal Cancer

There are limited available data comparing open, laparoscopic, and robotic approaches for rectal cancer surgery.We sought to investigate outcomes of different surgical approaches to abdominoperineal resection in patients with rectal cancer.The nationwide inpatient sample database was used to examine the clinical data of patients with rectal cancer who underwent elective abdominoperineal resection between 2009 and 2012 in the United States....